Property: Unknown Evesham Street ln year: 1851

Occupant: Henry Mountford aged:  36  Born:  Birmingham

Trade: Hairdresser –

Notes: Wife Catherine (Field) (39) Needle Paperer plus 2 working children + 3 younger children + 1 granddaughter at home. Was in Evesham Street on the 1841 census and then moved to Bates Hill on the 1861 census but no numbers stated on these census. Their son William on the 1881 census lived at 8 Evesham Street and was a Butcher. In the 1855 Billing Directory and Gazetteer Henry is classed as Sailor’s palm maker, Hairdresser and Newsagent in Evesham Street. In the Jones’s 1865 Mercantile Directory of the Iron District of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire Henry was classed as Hairdresser and Sailor’s Palm Maker, Prospect Hill . In the 1872 Post Office Directory he is a Hairdresser in Walford Street, Redditch. Henry died in 1883.

Source: JC – Census